Wednesday, January 26, 2011

Elvis Presley Blues

I came across my package design for a radio promo CD for Gillian Welch's Elvis Presley Blues (2001). Cover features a sneaky shakey photo I took at Graceland of one of the King's guitars.(You weren't supposed to take any photos.) Back features my ticket stub from Graceland tour with a photo I took of his pink Cadillacs inset.

About Me

FRANK OLINSKY is a graphic designer, art director, and illustrator. He was instrumental in the creation of the chameleonlike logo and “look” of MTV and has created album packages for many noteworthy musicians including the Smashing Pumpkins, Sonic Youth, Kronos Quartet and Philip Glass. The founding art director, cover designer and creative consultant of Tricycle: The Buddhist Review, Olinsky is also the co-author/designer of What The Songs Look Like: Contemporary Artists Interpret Talking Heads Songs and author/designer of Buddha Book: A Meeting of Images. He teaches at Parsons School of Design in New York.